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 Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 08:43 Post subject: TV shows on PC |
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Anyone knows how to record TV shows on my PC and convert them to lets say MPG, MPEG or whatever other major format ?
What would I need and such.
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 10:19 Post subject: |
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Easiest way would be to buy a TV card for your PC ... they usually come with capture tools. After capturing you need to encode the video and audio, virtualdub is a good freeware program for doing that. Check www.doom9.org for further details.
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DeepRed
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 11:40 Post subject: |
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I didn't tell him to buy a capture card, I told him to buy a TV card. And those often do have tools like software vcrs or simple capture tools which read the video stream from the card directly or from the video in socket.
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DeepRed
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 12:05 Post subject: |
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oh i see...and a TV card isn't a capture card? all capture cards have software delivered in the same package, or will you write the software to use the card u just bought yourself?
If you want good quality you'll have to encode on hardware, not on crappy software algorythms. the "Easiest" way is often far from the best.
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 13:10 Post subject: |
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Hrmpf. Of course a TV card is a capture card. In fact it is a capture card with a TV tuner. I know there are cards designed for capturing any video source and hardware encoding. But do you seriously think SkylineGTR had that in mind?
About "crappy" software algorithms: Thread starter clearly asked how to get TV shows into any "major" format. Wouldnt you think a complete studio setup with HDR and stuff would be a little bit of an overkill? If he doesnt have digital TV of some kind it certainly is. A TV card and virtualdub is a quite easy to use and the quality for sure is good enough. It's not that he wants to master DVDs or something ...
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arw
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| Posted: Wed, 9th Jun 2004 15:20 Post subject: |
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DeepRed why confuse things...?...I understood what he meant and i'm sure Skyline will too..so theres no need to confuse something that was explained in the best possible manner.
A TV card is what he needs..
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Phluxed
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Jun 2004 08:06 Post subject: |
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Its called TV Tuner guys....
Also, get the ATI TV wonder, hands down the best.
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